#academicfreedom — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/people/227743/ Orbán urges resistance against Hungary’s ‘enemies’ in fiery speech #AcademicFreedom #BYD #China #Colonialism #confrontation #corruption #EU #EU’sSecurity #FideszParty #fraud #Hungary #investigations #JudicialIndependence #KötcseiMeeting #MediaFreedom #MinorityRights #pariah #PeterMagyar #PeterSzijjarto #resistance #RuleOfLaw #TiszaParty #ViktorOrbán #VladimirPutin

"In 2023, 60 per cent of Australians rejected a constitutionally recognised Voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. A body that could only make representations, only on matters concerning the people whose ancestors have been here sixty thousand years.
"Too much, the No campaign shrieked. Division. Privilege. Special treatment.
"Nine months later, Anthony Albanese handed Jillian Segal what the Voice never dreamed of asking for. Not a right to be heard. Power. No election. No parliamentary vote. No hearing. A three year commission reporting personally to the Prime Minister, with a mandate reaching into every campus, newsroom, classroom, gallery, charity, arts contract and visa file in the Commonwealth."

Andrew Brown writes: https://michaelwest.com.au/the-segal-state-the-office-australia-never-voted-for/

#academicFreedom #influence #lobbying #policing #silencing #genocideSupport #hasbara #grievability #conflation #confusion #manipulation #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #Australia #RoyalCommission #AusPol #JillianSegal #Segal #AnthonyAlbanese

If the University of Chicago Won't Defend the Humanities, Who Will?

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/08/university-chicago-humanities-doctorate/684004/

#HackerNews #UniversityOfChicago #HumanitiesDefense #HumanitiesCulture #Education #Advocacy #AcademicFreedom

#TexasAM President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’

The university had been roiled over a student who filmed herself arguing with the instructor of a #children’s #literature course that recognized more than two #genders.

#law #censorship #AcademicFreedom
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/us/texas-am-president-gender-ideology-controversy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Academic freedom is under threat—yet research is vital in resisting anti-democratic forces.

Alone, our impact is limited—but together, we can act.

Collective action drives a new initiative by 27 migration scholars from around the globe: Don’t Mourn, Organize and Stand Together as Scholars of Migration.

They now launched a petition to make this collective resistance public.

https://www.change.org/p/migration-scholars-mobilize

#AcademicFreedom MigrationStudies #ResearchMatters

@migrationresearch
@migration

Academic freedom is under threat—yet research is vital in resisting anti-democratic forces.

Alone, our impact is limited—but together, we can act.

Collective action drives a new initiative by 27 migration scholars from around the globe: Don’t Mourn, Organize and Stand Together as Scholars of Migration.

They now launched a petition to make this collective resistance public.

https://www.change.org/p/migration-scholars-mobilize

#AcademicFreedom MigrationStudies #ResearchMatters

@migrationresearch
@migration

Academic freedom is under threat—yet research is vital in resisting anti-democratic forces.

Alone, our impact is limited—but together, we can act.

Collective action drives a new initiative by 27 migration scholars from around the globe: Don’t Mourn, Organize and Stand Together as Scholars of Migration.

They now launched a petition to make this collective resistance public.

https://www.change.org/p/migration-scholars-mobilize

#AcademicFreedom MigrationStudies #ResearchMatters

@migrationresearch
@migration

Academic freedom is under threat—yet research is vital in resisting anti-democratic forces.

Alone, our impact is limited—but together, we can act.

Collective action drives a new initiative by 27 migration scholars from around the globe: Don’t Mourn, Organize and Stand Together as Scholars of Migration.

They now launched a petition to make this collective resistance public.

https://www.change.org/p/migration-scholars-mobilize

#AcademicFreedom MigrationStudies #ResearchMatters

@migrationresearch
@migration

Academic freedom is under threat—yet research is vital in resisting anti-democratic forces.

Alone, our impact is limited—but together, we can act.

Collective action drives a new initiative by 27 migration scholars from around the globe: Don’t Mourn, Organize and Stand Together as Scholars of Migration.

They now launched a petition to make this collective resistance public.

https://www.change.org/p/migration-scholars-mobilize

#AcademicFreedom MigrationStudies #ResearchMatters

@migrationresearch
@migration

#Trump demands unprecedented control at #ColumbiaUniversity, alarming scholars and speech groups

By COLLIN BINKLEY and JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 7:52 PM EDT, March 14, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — "The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.

"Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its #MiddleEasternStudies, #SouthAsianStudies, and #AfricanStudies Department under 'academic receivership for a minimum of five years.' The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulled over allegations of #antisemitism.

"Across #academia, it was seen as a stunning intrusion.

"'It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,' said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors [#AAUP]. 'Even during the #McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.'"

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-arrests-1921e26f6b5a8585ad5cbda790846324
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #Censorship #DumbingUsDown #Authoritarianism #SilencingDissent #AcademicFreedom #Fascism

"A History Instructor Complained About Parking Fees. It Cost Him His Job"
https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-history-instructor-complained-about-parking-fees-it-cost-him-his-job
(#paywalled)

He complained about the high price of parking. He disputed the President's numbers in a "cordial" but "tense" public meeting on the topic. He turned over the research documenting his numbers. Two and a half weeks later, the provost fired him, explaining that #TarletonStateUniversity would not "tolerate intolerable behavior."

#Academia #AcademicFreedom
@academicchatter

How Student Protesters Will Save Democracy (They've Done It Before)
#AcademicFreedom #RealFreeSpeech #FreeAssociation #CivilDisobediance #CeaseFireNow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii-44eJqLH8